Updated at 10:50 am EST Americans for Prosperity, the nonprofit partially funded by billionaire energy executives Charles and David Koch, announced today that it would spend $4 milion targeting six vulnerable congressional Democrats for their support of President Barack Obama’s...

Generation Opportunity claims to represent younger Americans. 60 Plus Association, which supports privatizing Social Security and ending traditional Medicare, claims to represent the elderly. Both groups have two things in common: They are funded by nonprofits linked to billionaire energy executives...

Updated at 4:18 pm EDT Americans for Prosperity, the nonprofit with ties to billionaire energy executives Charles and David Koch, is spending $3 million on advertising in six states to oppose President Barack Obama’s new health-care law. The ad features an...

The Republican Governors Association out-raised its Democratic counterpart by more than $10 million in the first half of this year as the two parties prepare for 38 gubernatorial contests over the next 15 months. The RGA took in $23.6 million...

Senate Republicans’ campaign arm raised $3.6 million in May from donors including billionaire David Koch and Donald Trump. Koch, the executive vice president of Koch Industries, one of the world’s biggest closely held companies, and Trump each gave $32,400 last month...

Former South Carolina Republican Gov. Mark Sanford and Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch each raised more than $300,000 for their campaigns for a vacant House seat in the Charleston area, a reflection of their high name recognition. Sanford raised $334,000 through...

President Barack Obama has made it clear that he despises the tax-exempt nonprofit groups that play in politics. Yet now his own campaign is becoming one of them. The nonprofit Americans for Prosperity — a frequent target of Obama’s criticism...

The Center to Protect Patient Rights funneled $62 million into a series of nonprofit groups for the 2010 elections. The sources of the money were hidden from public view, Bloomberg reports. The center was headed by Sean Noble, a former...

Casino executive Sheldon Adelson, who with his wife have given $36 million to super-political action committees in 2012, contributed $5 million to the host committee that helped stage the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, in August, new Federal Election...

Canadian citizen Shona Holmes, right, with members of the House Republican leadership Rep. Roy Blunt, left, Minority Leader John Boehner, Rep. Judy Biggert, and Minority Whip Eric Cantor about Holmes's travel to the Mayo Clinic in Arizona for surgery to remove a cyst in her brain that was causing her to go blind.

Blocks from where Democrats are holding their convention this week in Charlotte, a Canadian resident is warning of the dangers of President Barack Obama’s health-care law. Shona Holmes is in town to promote an Americans for Prosperity ad. The nonprofit...